Shooto Brasil 82 crowns Fabrício Negão and Leonardo Limberger as new champions

F. Negão (c) took the Shooto belt. Photo: Natalino Weneck

Shooto Brasil 82 caught fire on Saturday night (28), in Rio de Janeiro. With two titles at stake, the show crowned Fabrício Negão and Leonardo Limberger as new champions. While the first surprised favorite Valmir Bidu with a submission in the main fight of the night and won the lightweight belt (up to 70kg), the second beat Adonilton Matos by unanimous decision and became featherweight champion (up to 66kg). Other highlights of the night were former UFC Felipe Olivieri who beat Argentine Christian Dipp by knockout and Pedro Nobre with a lightning victory over Júnior Orelha.

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The main fight of Shooto Brasil 82 pitted ex-UFC Valmir Bidu and Fabrício Negão face to face. A boxing specialist, Bidu relied on jabs throughout the first round to frustrate Fabrício and come out ahead. In the second round the scenario continued, with Negão betting on counterattacks and Bidu controlling the fight and defending himself well. Until at the end of the round, after a mistake from Bidu, Fabrício got on his back and found a rear naked choke that put out the Nova União athlete, putting an end to the duel and giving the belt to the Piauí athlete.

Leonardo Limberger and Adonilton Matos lived up to the featherweight belts that were up for grabs in the co-main event of the night. After a balanced first round with both men exchanging blows, Limberger came back better in the second stage and took control of the fight until the end of the three rounds. Victory and featherweight belt guaranteed for Pedro Rizzo's pupil from Rio Grande do Sul.

Olivieri puts on a show and Pedro Nobre delivers a lightning knockout

The fight between the former UFC and TUF Brazil Felipe Olivieri and Argentine Christian Dipp was almost a monologue. After abusing low kicks and massacring Dipp in the first round, Olivieri secured the victory after a medical interruption in the interval between rounds due to a large cut on the Argentine's forehead. One of the best-known names on the card, Pedro Nobre, from the legendary BTT team, starred in the most beautiful moment of the night. Less than a minute into the fight, he knocked out Júnior Orelha in spectacular fashion after a beautiful sequence of punches.

With Pedro Rizzo in the corner, Jorge Filho did well. After dominating much of the first round, he found a beautiful technical submission to erase Marcelo Barbosa and emerge victorious. The almost charás Werick Dinamite and Erick Panteirinha excited the audience at the Upper Arena with a very open fight. In the end better for Dinamite who won by majority decision. The two duels that opened Shooto Brasil 82 were eventful. While Hudson Sombra and Dewis Espantalho fought a very balanced battle won by Sombra after a beautiful knockout with a low kick, Lucas Almeida He didn't give Alan Alves a chance and finished in the first with a guillotine choke.

Shooto Brasil 82 results

Fabrício Negão submitted Valmir Bidu with a rear naked choke at 4min and 57sec of the second round

Leonardo Limberger beat Adonilton Matos by unanimous decision

Felipe Olivieri beat Christian Dipp by technical knockout at 5 minutes of the first round

Pedro Nobre beat Júnior Orelha by knockout 43 seconds into the first round

Jorge Filho submitted Marcelo Barbosa with a technical submission at 4min and 38sec seconds of the first round

Werick Dinamite beat Erick Panteirinha by majority decision

Hudson Sombra beat Dewis Espantalho by technical knockout 1 minute and 35 seconds into the second round

Lucas Almeida submitted Alan Alves with a guillotine at 2min and 40sec of the first round

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